Machine for preparing fusees



Dec. 1, 1953 F. R. CLARK ETAL MACHINE FOR PREPARING FUSEES Filed Aug. 23, 1949 8 Sheets-Sheet l CnRL :1. WEST JR- BY 253M147 Dec. 1, 1953 F. R. CLARK EI'AL MACHINE FOR PREPARING FUSEES 8 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed Aug. 23, 1949 F. R- CLARK ETAL MACHINE FOR PREPARING FUSEES Dec. 1, 1953 8 Sheets-Sheet 3 Filed Aug. 23, 1949 Dec. 1, 1953 F. R. CLARK ETAL 0,

1 MACHINE FOR PREPARING 'FUSEES Filed Aug. 25, 1949 s Sheets-Sheet 4 IN EN TORS F'Rmvc/s A. Cum K- CAR 1 J- WEsT Jm 4. 43; :11. mag 425 Dec. 1, 1953 F. R. CLARK ET AL 2,650,345

MACHINE FOR PREPARING FUSEES Filed Aug. 23, 1949 8 Sheets-Sheet 5 INVENTORS 887 PRfl/VC/S R. CLHR K By CARL. J. WEST JR.

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ew ham Dec. 1, 1953 F. R. CLARK ETAL 6 45 MACHINE FOR PREPARING FUSEES Filed Aug. 23, 1949 8 Sheets-Sheet 8 INVENTORS FRH/vc/s E. CLERK CARL. J. WEST JR.

nm uzq m m Patented Dec. 1, 1953 MAGHINE FOR PREPARING FUSEES Francis R. Clark, Orange, N. 3., and Carl J. West,

.ir., Columbus, Qhio, assignors to 225 Enterprises Ina, Orange, N. J., a corporation of Ohio Application August 23, 1949, Serial N 0. 111,802

13 Claims.

The present invention relates to a machine for preparin fusees, starting with the preformed rods or cylinders of fusee material and automatically performing each operation necessary to prepare them for market. The conventional fusee comprises a rod or cylinder of iusee material about of an inch in diameter of desired length, the most common sizes being approximately a four inch length which is known as a five minute fusee and about an 8 inch length which is known as a ten minute fusee. The cylinder of fusee material is wrapped Within several turns of a paper cover which is slightly longer than the cylinder. One end of the cover is spun over the periphery of the end of the cylinder around a predrilled hole about an inch deep which is ther after filled with an igniter composition. The other end of the fusee is customarily finished in either of two different ways. .1 one of these a plug, 6. g. a disc of fibrous material such as cardboard, of the same diameter as the cylinder is adhesively secured thereto and the paper cover is spun over it. In another of these a plug with a spike driven through it is inserted into the cavity formed by the extending cover and cemented in place with the sharp end of the spike exposed. For some purposes a long handle is substituted for the spiked plug.

Heretofore the drilling, wrapping and finishing of the ends of fusees has entailed much hand labor. The present invention provides a machine which performs these operations automatically, having means selectively operable to finish the lower ends of fusees of diiferent lengths with either a plain or a spiked plug. The structure, advantages and other objects of the invention will be clear from the following detailed description, taken in conjunction with the drawings in which:

Fig. 1 is a fragmentary front elevation of the major portion of the machine, somewhat schematic in parts and with some elements omitted for clarity of illustration;

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary front elevation of the wrapping mechanism and some related parts on a somewhat larger scale;

Fig. 3 is a plan View looking down on Fig. 2;

Fig. 4 is an end elevation looking to the right of Fig. 2 with some parts in section;

Fig. 5 is a fragmentary front elevation, with some parts in section, of a nail and plug mechanism for assembling a spike in a plug and inserting the assemblage into the cavity at the lower end of a wrapped fusee;

Fig. 6 is a plan view of the mechanism of Fig. 5;

Fig. 7 is an end elevation of the mechanism of Fig. 5 looking from left toward the right;

Fig. 8 is a section on the line 88 of Fig. 4;

Fig. 9 is a section on the line 9-9 of Fig. 4;

Fig-10 is a section on the line Iii-Hi of Fig. 5;

Fig. 11 is a section on the line l l! I of Fig. 6;

Fig. 12 is a fragmentary plan view of a disc applicator mechanism;

Fig. 13 is a fragmentary front view of Fig. 12;

Fig. 14 is a fragmentary side view of Fig. 12 looking from left with parts broken away to show details of construction;

Fig. 15 is a fragmentary sectional view on the line 5-45 of Fig. 3;

Fig. 15 is a View, partly in section of a disc-end fusee, such as ordinarily used on highways; and Fig. 17 is a similar view of a spike-end fusee,

such as ordinarily used on railroads.

Referring now more particularly to Fig. l, the machine comprises a frame 1 for supporting the various elements and parts, including a fusee cylinder hopper and feed element 2, a, drilling mechanism 3, a pusher mechanism 4, a wrapper gluing and feed mechanism 5, a wrapper rolling device 6, a wrapper end spinning device 1, and means for a plying a plug to the lower end of the fusee. This may be a spiked plug inserting mechanism 3 (Figs. 5, 6 and 7) which articulates with the elements of Fig. 1 in the position broken away at the right end thereof, or simply a disc applicator 9 (Figs. 12, 13 and 14:) which articulates with the elements of 1 near the end of the pusher mechanism 4 as indicated by the parts numbered Q9! and 92B.

Fusee cylinder hopper and-feed This element of the combination includes up' rights 289 secured to the frame I which carry a pair of spaced cross bars 26! at their upper ends. A shaft 202 is journaled in the cross bars adjacent to the right end thereof as seen in Fig. 1. A pulley 293 is fixed to shaft 282 between the cross bars Zill. Behind the back cross bar a sprocket 284 is also fixed to shaft 292. At the left end of each cross bar 25! is a horizontal slot 205 in each of which a journal block 256 is slidably mounted for adjustment by a screw 20'! which has threaded engagement with a nut 208 secured to cross bar 291. A look nut 259 maintains the screw in any set position of adjustment. A shaft 2 H3 is rotatably mounted in journal blocks 285 and it carries pulley 2!! between the cross bars 20!. A belt 2| 2 runs around pulleys 203 and 21 I, being brought to the correct tension by adproper feed of the justment of screws 261. The upper flight of belt 212 forms the bottom of a hopper 2l3 in which a large number of fusee rods or cylinders can be placed at one time for processing in the machine to prepare them for market. The right wall of the hopper Z13 terminates short of the belt 2&2 by a distance somewhat greater than the diameter of the fusee rods and the remainder of the upper flight is covered by an upper guide plate 214 which is similarly spaced therefrom. At the right end of the conveyor the plate 2M curves downwardly and, together with a lower guide plate 255, forms a chute 2H5. At its left end the plate 2M is curved upwardly to give a funnel effect and the adjacent wall of the hopper 213, i. e., the right end as viewed in Fig. 1, may be provided with an adjustable bar 2 ll to assure fusee rods from the hopper in a single row on the belt as shown.

In order to adapt the machine to handle fusee rods of different lengths, a belt ZIZ approximately the same width as the longest fusee is used and the front wall of hopper 2 l 3, as viewed in Fig. 1 and which is omitted in the drawing, may be made adjustable toward and away from the back wall. In this way the far ends of the fuses rods occupy the same position for all lengths of rods.

In operation the sprocket 204, which is driven by a chain later to be pulley 2B3 clockwise and thereby moves the upper flight of the belt 2l2 to the right as seen in Fig. 1. This causes the fusee rods to align themselves transversely of the belt and to leave the hopper in a single row. The rods are then delivered to the chute 216 which feeds them one by one into the drilling mechanism now to be described.

Drilling mechanism Uprights 308, secured to frame I at their lower ends, provide journals in their upper ends for a shaft 30.! which carries a turret 302 between the uprights. In the periphery of the turret 302 are several pockets 3% of semi-cylindrical shape into which the fusee rods are fed from chute 2 [6. Each pocket is provided with a bell crank 3G4 pivoted to the turret so that gripping fingers at one side of the pivot are adapted to engage the fusee rod in the pocket and hold it against movement in the pocket while an arm at the other side engages a earn 305 fixed to the upright 30D. Cam 365 controls the release of the fingers from the fusee rod against the pressure of a spring (not shown) which biases the bell crank to engaged position. The cam 3635, has a high portion and a low portion, each covering about, half of the periphery and so arranged that the gripping fingers are held in open position as a pocket in the turret 302 approaches the end of t Chute 216 to receive the lowermost fusee rod therein, then moved to engaged position until the p k approaches the. bottom of the orbit when they are moved, to open position again. The turret is rotated in clockwise direction, as; viewed in Fig. 1, by a gear 395 fixed to a shaft 301-, being driven by a pinion later to be described.

Also mounted on shaft 30!, and behind the turret 3132, as viewed in F g. 1 is the drilling mechanism pro er comprising a drill spindle turret carrying the same number of spindles as there are pockets 3135, each spindle being provided with a. chuck: for h lding a twist drill at the, end toward, turret 3G2 and a gear at the other end for driving the spindle from a motor driven gear common to, all the, spindles. The spindles are movable. toward and away from. 2 1 2 16 2 302 under described, rotates the p A control of a cam which starts the drill into a fusee cylinder near the top of the orbit, finishes the inward movement in about of rotation of the turret and withdraws the drill before the gripping jaws are released. This mechanism forms no part of the present invention and may be of any suitable specific form, e. g., that shown in Fishburne Patents 1,021,242; 1,034,436.

Stepped pusher Posts 436 mounted on frame I provide support for a pair of horizontal rods Gill on which a carriage 482 is mounted for reciprocatory motion from left to right as viewed in Figs. 1 and 13. The upper surface of the carriage 4532 is in the form of a plurality of steps M33, but this is not essential, being merely a suitable device for moving, the drilled fusees the requisite horizontal distance without reciprocating the pusher the whole distance. Above each of the steps 463 except the top one and secured to the frame I is a stepped guide- 494 having one less step than the pusher 4. Each step of the guide is spaced above the corresponding step of they pusher a distance slightly greater than the diameter of the fuses rods. The steps of the guide 404, are joined by sloping risers and the lowest step ends in a downturned stop, these risers and stops being spaced from the end of the next higher step at the limit of its movement to the right a distance slightly greater than the diameter of the fuses rods. A pair of latchesis pivoted to each step of the guide with their free ends extending below the guide into the path of a fusee rod on the step of the pusher. The respective pairs of latches bear numbers. M35, 406, and 461. At the left end of the guide GEM is an arcuate guide 408 which extends backwardly along the turret 302 generally parallel thereto to assure that a fusee rod released from the turret will fall into position in front of the uppermost step 403 when it is in its starting position for the cycle of operations now to be described.

With a fusee rod in the position just recited, the carriage 402 moves to the right carrying the fusee rod on the second step with the first step acting as a pusher. Toward the right end of the movement the fusee lifts latches 495 as it passes under them but as soon as it has passed the latches fall behind it and prevent it from being carried backwardly on the return of the carriage to its starting position at the left, thus advancing the fusee rod to the next step down. On next movement to the right the same action takes place under latches 4535, advancing the rod to the bottomstep where the same action takes place on the next trip under latches ml. In the mean time a new rod has been deposited in front of the first step each time it returned to starting position. and in this way each of the steps is always provided with a fusee rod.

Below the right end of the lowest step 483 is a traveling platform 1196 supported by a fusee transport 4H! which is mounted in the post 4% for reciprocatory movement from left to right as seen in Fig. 1. In its starting position at the left, the front end of the platform 499 is substantially aligned with the front end of guide 48% so that the lowest fusee on pusher 402 is transferred to the platform 48!).

The drive for the fusee transport 519 comprises a. connecting rod 4!! pivoted at one end to the transport and at the other to the upper end of a lever 412- which is fulcrumed intermediate its ends to the frame I at 413. The lower end of lever M2 is pivoted to a connecting rod 4M to which reciprocatory movement is imparted by a cam t I 5 fixed on a cam shaft Q I ii. A fork M i, which spans the shaft M6 and is guided thereby, forms the end of the connecting rod GM as clearly seen in Fig. 8. A roller 458 rotatably mounted near the end of fork 4H is kept in engagement with the periphery of cam M5 by a spring lIQ (Fig. 1).

Carriage see is reciprocated by a similar mechanism comprising a lever 32E pivoted to the frame I at its lower end as shown at $2! and connected at its upper end to the carriage by a pivoted link 422. A connecting rod 623 is pivoted at one end to an intermediate portion of lever dZil. The other end of rod 22 connects with a. strap 324 of an eccentric 325 which is fixed to shaft 416 (Figs. 1, 4 and 9). The periphery of the eccentrio is provided with a groove 426 in which a rib 427 on the inner surface of strap 42-? rides to keep the strap on the eccentric. As seen in Fig. 9, the strap is made in two semicircular parts having end bosses 428 for machine screws 429 which secure the parts together around the eccentric 325.

The wrapper gluing and feed mechanism The details of the mechanism 5 are not part of the invention and any device which will accomplish the function of the conventional one shown in the drawing may be used in place thereof without departing from the invention.

Frame members including uprights 56% support a magazine 5M in which a stack of wrapper sheets 502 is held in such a way that a sheet feed wheel 583 can remove them one at time from the bottom of the stack. Like hopper 2 I3, the front wall of the magazine 51 is made adjustable to hold wrappers of proper size for the different lengths of fusees. The lead end of the bottom sheet is directed downwardly between a pair of pinch rolls 5% and between back-up rolls 532i and a glue roll 506. The latter is supplied with glue by a glue transfer roll 5%? from a supply kept in a glue trough 553. On a shaft 509, which is journaled in the frame, is mounted a sprocket 5 i ii and a pinion 5I I which meshes with gears for the glue roll 596 and the pinch rolls 594. The latter also meshes with the first of a train of two gears 5I2, the second of which drives the sheet feed wheel 563.

Guide bars 553' for the uncoated side and cooperating guide bars 5H for the coated side of the wrapper are suitably secured to cross bars 5I5 which are fastened to upright 59;! (Fig. 3). The upper ends of guides 5I3 and 514 are so arranged as to receive the glued wrapper leaving rolls 595 and 505. Bars di l are tapered to a blunt edge toward the guide bars 5 I so as to keep the area of contact with the wrapper at a minimum and it is preferred to provide the periphery of the glue roll 5% with grooves 5H5 in line with guides 514 so as to leave narrow bands of the wrapper sheets uncoated where the guides will engage. These guide bars terminate at their lower ends just above the path of a fusee on the platform tilt of the transport lIIl. See Fig. 2.

The rollers 585 are arranged so that only the upper one, as viewed in Fig. 3, engages the sheets for wrapping the short or 5 minute fusees whereas both engage a sheet for wrapping the long or minute rods. When short fusees are being wrapped the lower roll 58%: is moved along its shaft out of contact with the glue roll.

It will be seen from Figs. 1 and 3 that in passing over roll 5% a wrapper sheet is coated with glue over the entire surface which faces the platform 409 except for the narrow bands left by grooves M6. The coated sheet is delivered into the space between the platform and the wrapper rolling device 6 so that its lower end arrives some- What below the level of the platform at the same time that the pusher 403 brings the fusee rod supported on the platform M39 into engagement with the glued surface. The fusee rods and wrapper are transported into the rolling device with the lower end of the sheet partially surrounding the rod and the upper end supported by guides 5I3 and 5M until the rolling operation begins.

The wrapper rolling device Uprights 665 on frame I provide journals for an intermittently rotated shaft {ital upon which a turret 682 is fixed. The turret comprises an integral hub and disc 693 pinned to shaft BGI (Fig. 4) on which a plurality of bifurcated members having a pair of spaced arms 85 are bolted or otherwise suitably fastened at regular intervals. The end of each arm 69 preferably carries a pair of projections 605a (Fig. 15) separated by a semicircular recess of about the diameter of the wrapped fuses. A shaft @235 is journaled in and extends beyond each pair of arms 553%. A gear 666 and a driven roller Sill are secured to the shaft outside and between the arms 5%, respectively. It is preferred to have two such shafts 6% for each pair of the bifurcated arms, as shown most clearly in Figs. 2 and 15, which are spaced so that the peripheries of the driven rollers 69 form a cradle or pocket in which the fusee and wrapper are received and rotated, but one such roller can be used if desired. Loosely mounted on shaft 535 just outside the arms 6% are links 598, one at each side, which carry a holding roller 8!!! journaled in their free ends. A tie rod 699 extends between links 688 and, with the axle of roller 6H1, forms a yoke or cradle capable of oscillation about shaft 555. A pin til in one of the links see at each side of the cradle extends into a slot in the other link 363 so that the two yokes oscillate together but in opposite directions. One link 668 in each pair of yokes has an arm ii2 with a cam roller B13 mounted near its end. A spring 614, which is connected at one end to arm 6i? near roller Sit and at the other to disc E53 biases the links 663 with their respective holding rollers SIG to closed position. Each pair of yokes and associated parts forms a wrapping set or unit.

Movement of the holding rollers is controlled by a cam tit loosely mounted on shaft Bill which has a high portion tit and a low portion Ell. When cam roller 6 I 3 engages high portion 6 I 6 the holding rollers are in open position to receive or discharge a fusee but when it engages the low portion GIl the spring 6M moves these rollers to closed or holding position against the fusee and wrapper sheet. The mechanism for moving cam 5I5 includes a crank arm 658 on the hub of the cam (Fig. 3), a connecting rod 659 (Fig. 2) a lever $22 pivoted to the frame 3 at 515i, and a cam roller 622 engaging in the race of a earn $23 mounted on the cam shaft ilt. The race of cam 62%.- has high n El, intermediate portion I, and a low portion L suitably joined by sloping portions.

It will be seen from Fig. 2, that rotation of cam shaft H8 will impart timed oscillatory movement to cam 6&5. With the parts in the position of Fig. 2, one wrapping device is at the loading station during a dwell in the movement of turret 2332, having just received a fuses and wrapper in the open position of the holding rollers. Rotation of the shaft H6 in clockwise direction brings the roller 622 of the lever 62?) into the high portion of the race of cam e23, thereby lifting lever 526.,

I the turret tea from the loading station to a spinning station at the bottom just 90 from the loading station, and then to a discharge station at the right just 180 from the loading station the holding rollers maintain their snug hold on the fusee and wrapper. The driven rollers rotate the fusee and wrap the sheet around it during thetime the wrapping unit moves from the loading station to the spinning station in a manner later described in detail. Just as the unit reaches the discharge station the roller 553 approaches the high portion 62%. At the same time the roller 622 has passed the low portion L and reaches the intermediate portion I ofthe race in earn 523 and thereby lifts lever 02d, connecting rod Sid and crank arm 5H3, thus rotating cam Sis clockwise far'enough to open the wrapping device at the discharge station but not to close the one at the loading station which must remain open long enough for the fuses and wrapper to be moved into place. This time is provided by the intermediate portion I of the race in 623, and it is only when. roller reaches the high portion E that the holding rollers at the loading station are permitted to close. The wrapping unit is held. open, from the discharge station untilit reaches the loading station by the high portion 6 as, but this is not essential as it could close and open again, if desired. Cam 623 makes one complete revolution for each intermittent quarter turn of shaft til i and turret 662, but this, of course, wouldbe modified if turret 602 carried a different number of wrapping units.

The mechanism for rotating the driven rollers 60'! comprises a gear 625 loosely mounted on shaft Bill which meshes with each of the gears 68%;. A pinion 62% mounted on a counter shaft 52? which is journaled in frame member 69!} also meshes with gear 625 as shown in Fig. l. Also fixed to counter-shaft E2! is a gear 623 which meshes with pinion 629 on a stud shaft 530 journaled in upright 6GB and carrying a sprocket eat. The gear ratios are such that driven rollers (it? rotate the fusee and wrapper about 3 /2 times while the turret moves from the loading station to the spinning station, thus completing the wrapping during a 90 movement of turret as shown in the drawings.

Intermittent movement is imparted to shaft Gill and turret M32 by 2. Geneva mechanism which includes a countershaft 632 journaled in upright 60!] (Fig. 3) on which a Geneva driver is secured, a Geneva gear fixed to shaft Bill, and a sprocket 635 fixed on shaft 632. Sprockets 535 is driven at constant speed by means later described and it is apparent from the drawings that for each 180 of rotation of shaft 632, the shaft 6E3! is given an intermittent rotation of 90 Shaft 632 also carries sprocket see for a purpose later set forth.

Fusees are removed from the wrapping device at the discharge station by a transfer lever 53? which is pivoted intermediate its ends to an upright 50s by means including a pin 638. At the upper end lever 63? carries a cam roller can while its lower end is bifurcated to provide fingers eat at either side of the wrapping device which are 1 adapted to engage the ends of the fuses (Figs. 1

and 3). The roller tas runsin the race 64! of a cam E432 mounted on a shaft (343 journale'd in the frame and driven by a sprocket 644 in a manner later described. Race 6 H has low and high portions which impart timed oscillatory motion to lever 53! to cause the fingers M to remove a fusee when the holding rollers open and then return to starting position of Fig. 1 to repeat the operation each time a different wrapping unit arrives at the discharge position.

The parts of the wrapping units including driven rollers 68! and holding rollers Bill shown in the drawings are designed to wrap a minute fusee approximately centered therein with both ends extending somewhat beyond links .663 for spinning in a manner next to be described. It has been found that the 10' minute'fusee' can also be satisfactorily wrapped in the same mechanism with the upper end indexed in the same position as the 5 minute fusee since the paper customarily used for this purpose is suiiiciently stiff that a tight wrap is obtained even though there is no rollerpressure on the lower half of the fuses during wrapping. In case less stiff paper is used,

the mechanism can be simply adapted to exert rolling pressure over greater length by removing the wrapping'units shown and replacing them by similar units having longer rollers. The cam 6l5 would also be replaced by one having a shorter hub. Fig. 4 shows that adequate space is available for this purpose.

Wrapper and spinning device It is customary to extend the wrapper of a fusee slightly beyond the drilled end and to spin it over the periphery of the fuses end without covering the hole, shown in Figs. 16 and 17. In the present machine, the wrapper is held in such relation to the fusee being pushed into it that the edge of the wrapper sheet extends beyond the drilled end of the fusee just the right distance to provide the proper amount for spinning over the end. For this purpose a spinning head Hill is mounted at the left of the turret 602, as seen in Fig. l, on a shaft 182 and provided with a recess 133 which is aligned with a fusee in the turret during the dwell at the bottom position. Shaft W2 is rotatably and slidably mounted in journals E94. A pulley l5, fixed to shaftJflZ, is provided with a groove 7% for a V-belt 161 which also goes around a driving pulley HE! fixed to a high speed jack shaft HI suitably journaled in the frame I. Pulley its also has a groove 193 for a shift lever Z99 which is pivoted at H2 to frame I. At its upper end lever 199 is bifurcated (Fig. 1) and each arm 1 I3 is provided with a roller 5M which rides in groove I88. At the lower end lever N18 is provided with a roller H5 which rides in the race N5 of cam H1 on cam shaft M6. The mechanism is duplicated at the right of the turret, and these parts are given the same reference numbers with a subscript a.

Spinning head Till is shown in Fig. 4: at the innermost position it assumes during the spin hing operation. having just arrived thereby reason of rotation of cam H1 clockwise as viewed from the right of Fig. l. The fusee is rotating in the same direction due to the action of driven roller Bill while the spinning head rotates counterclockwise. As the head ldl approaches the drilled end of the fusee due to the movement of roller H5 along the sloping part of race H6 as seen in Fig. 4, it turns the free extension of the wrapper over and smoothes out any folds. The adhesive applied to the wrapper by glue roll holds the end in place after the spinning operation. Continued rotation of cam H7 brings the oppositely sloping portion (not shown) of race 7H5 into contact with roller H and returns the spinning head to its initial positions free from the fusee.

If both ends of the fusee wrapper are to be spun, spinning device 'ia operates in the way described for l and simultaneously therewith, the only difference being that the recess 153a preferably is contoured so as to form a reverse or U-bend in the lower end of the wrapper as shown in Fig. 16. Where a plug and spike insert is to be made in the lower end of the fusee, as shown for the spike-end fusee of Fig. 17, spinner la is inactivated by disconnecting it from the shaft H l and slipping shaft 102a as far to the right as necessary to clear the end of the fusees being wrapped, as may be done by loosening pulley 105a.

The drive Electric motor 12c drives a variable speed device 72! by means of a -l-belt T22 and v-belt 123 connects device E25 with a pulley lid on jack shaft 'ii i. The construction of the variable speed device 726 forms no part of the present invention and for this reason the details are not shown and it is to be understood that any suitable device of this type may be used. Pinion 125 on shaft H i meshes with a gear I26 on cam shaft llfi (cf. Fig. 4) which is driven thereby in clockwise direction os viewed in Fig. l.

The drive for the wrapper gluing and feed device 5 includes a sprocket 121 affixed to shaft ill (of. Fig. 4), a pair of slack take up sprockets 728 and E 29 and a roller chain 139 which runs around sprockets l2? and 5H].

The drive for the transfer lever 537 comprises a sprocket iti on cam shaft M6 (cf. Fig. 4), idler sprockets F32 and 533, a slack take-up sprocket '53s and a roller chain 135 which runs around sprockets T31, 64 3 and ass, as shown in Fig. 1. The chain 135 travels in the direction indicated by the arrows going in turn from sprocket 13!, to 535, 535, 733, 54%, T32 and back to 13L A third roller chain 'i36 which runs around sprocket 53$ (cf. Fig. 4) transmits the motion imparted to shaft 35! by sprocket i535 and chain 135 to sprocket 33!, sprocket 2M (passing around idler sprockets 2 -37, 733 and E39 to clear other parts of the device), to sprocket 1-49 which is aflixed to a stud shaft 74! on which pinion 742 is secured in mesh with gear 3%, and to sprocket M3 on stud shaft 'ld which function in a manner later described. A slack take-up sprocket M5 is provided for chain 736 which also serves to guide it clear of the other parts of the machine. Chain E35 travels in the direction of the arrows adjacent to it, going in turn from sprocket 53B around sprockets 165, 163, Mil, T39, 2134, 133, 53?, SSI and back to 636.

A sprocket 835 on shaft MS (of. Fig. 4) drives a roller chain 536 which provides motive power for the plug inserting mechanism 8 now to be described.

Plug inserting mechanism Uprights tflil are provided on frame l as shown in Fig. 1. Two of them at the left of the plug inserting mechanism are provided with journals for a shaft 39! (cf. Fig. 3) on which gear 862 is 10 fixed to shaft 81' between the rights 800.

At the right end of the plug inserting mechanism, a shaft 807 is held at each end in a block 868 which is slidably mounted in a horizontal guide 869 in the upright sun, as seen in Fig. -1. A screw 8H2 passing through the block and shaft and bearing against the end of guide 809 provides adjustment of the respective journal block 898 horizontally along guides 869. Sprocket BI! is rotatably mounted on shaft 807 in the vertical plane of sprocket 896 and conveyor chain 812 runs around these two sprockets.

Fastened to the conveyor chain 812 are fusee holders 853 which are regularly spaced along the chain so that one of them is always positioned in horizontal alignment with the wrapper rolling device at its discharge station during the dwell in the movement of the turret 602 and the chain 8| 2. This permits transfer of a wrapped fusee from the rolling device into a holder 8l3 by the transfer lever 63?. Along the upper reach of chain 812 the fusee holders slide along supporting guides 8M and the chain is supported by bar MS (of. Figs. 6 and 7).

Referring now to Figs. 5, 6 and 7, the plug in-' serting mechanism 8, which is associated with conveyor chain H2 in the region broken away in Fig. 1, comprises a frame 82! which may be part of frame 5 but preferably is a separate frame mounted on wheels or castors (not shown) so that the whole mechanism 8 can be moved into or out of position as desired. Mechanism 8 is not used if both ends of the fusee wrapper are spun over the fusee ends by the spinning devices 7 and la, nor if a long handle is inserted in the lower pocket formed by the extension of the wrapper to form a torch. In the lattercase particularly it is advantageous to be able to move mechanism 8 out of the way to make room for an operator who inserts these handles into the pockets by hand during a dwell in the movement of the conveyor chain.

Mounted on frame 82E is a conventional nail or spike feed chute 322 which has at its upper end a magazine (not shown) for holding a supply of the spikes S and feeding them into chute 822 one after another so that their heads support them in the chute with the sharp ends downwardly as shown in Fig. 5. At the end of the chute spring fingers support the lowest spike in position for easy removal by a hammer.

A plug feed chute 823 (Fig. 6), which is associated with a magazine of conventional type (not shown) adapted to hold a supply of the plugs P and feed them one at a time in upright position into the chute, delivers the plugs to an anvil 825 having a slot for the spike axially aligned with the lowest spike in chute 822. Also axially aligned with these parts is a reciprocating hammer 825 (Fig. 5).

The hammer 825 is mounted for limited sliding movement in a cross head 826, being normally biased downwardly by a spring 321. Cross head 828 is fixed to the upper ends of a pair of vertically reciprocating bars 828 mounted in suitable fixed guides on frame 82!.

Just above the plug on anvil 824 is a spike guide 829 comprising guide blocks 830 mounted for limited horizontal movement in a guide support 832 and biased to closed position by springs 832. The abutting faces of the blocks have aligned tapered channels forming a downwardly converging guide for the sharp end of the spikes as they are removed from the end of chute 822 by the two journals in updownward movement of hammer 3-25 to assure the proper entry of the point of the spike into the hole in the plug P on H a head of the spike and the hammer enter guide blocks 83% they yield by sliding horizontally in guide support 83I against the force of the springs 832.

Stud shaft 833, which is journaled in frame 82 I, carries a sprocket 534% in the vertical plane of the sprocketBSi-i on cam shaft ll-6 (Fig. 4) and the chain 835 running around these two sprockets imparts the continuous rotation of shaft MB to stud shaft 833. p n

A transverse cam shaft 838 is journaled in frame 82! adjacent and parallel to shaft 833 and it has a gear 839 fixed thereto in mesh with pinion 83?. intermediate its ends shaft 838 has a bevel gear 849 fixed to it which meshes with a similar bevel gear till fixed to the end of a .longi tudinal cam shaft 3 52. Fixed to the cam shaft 852 is an eccentric 8 53 having a groove 84 1 in its periphery. Surrounding the eccentric is the clan- .ventional strap 355 which is provided on its hearing surface with a ridge which rises the groove #44 to hold the strap in place. A connecting rod 366 connects strap $55 with a crosshead 8 H fixed to the lower ends of bars .828.

A turret wheel 53 which is provided peripherally with a plurality of pockets 8&9 ismountad on one end of a shaft sec journaled in frame 821 so that a pocket positioned in the vertical plane through the axis of the shaft at the top of the wheel is adjacent to and aligned with a plug on anvil 82 3 (Figs. 5 and 6). A spiral gear .85! is fixed to the other end ofshaft 8% and it meshes with its companion spiral gear 852 which is fixed to oneen d of a shaft 853 suitably journaled in frame 82 so that a sprocket 35 3 fixed to its other end engages conveyor chain 812 and is driven intermittently thereby. The drive mechanism for turret 8-28 just described is so adjusted that at each dwell of the chain 352 a pocket M9 is indexed at the top and another 90 beyond, i. e., in 'the vertical and horizontal planes, respectively of the axis of the turret.

A horizontally reciprocable transfer slide 855 is mounted in the frame 82i in line with aplu on anvil 824. At the end adjacent to the anvil, slide 855 -'s bifurcated, one arm passing above the anvil to contact the plug and the other passing under it simultaneously to contact the end of the spike when the slide moves to the left, as seen in Fig. 5. Afrock lever 856, pivoted to frame 821 intermediate its ends by pin 35?, is connected by link 858 at its upper end to slide 855 and by connecting rod 859 at its lower end to a fork 269 slidably mounted on shaft 838 and having a roller 86! rotatably secured thereto which rides in the race of a cam 8&2 on cam shaft 338. The shape of the race is shown in dotted lines in Fig. 5..

A second horizontally reciprocable transfer slide 853 is mounted in the frame 812'! in line with aplug in a pocket 8% which is indexed in the aforementioned horizontal plane. lhe end of slide 8533 adjacent to the turret 848 is bifurcated (Fig. 6) and functions as described for slide 355 to transfer the plug and nail from the turret and align it with a plug insert slide later described. A link 3% connects slide 863 with the upper end of a rock lever 86% which is pi-voted by "pin 8% to frame 82! intermediate its ends.

861 which rides in the race of a cam B68 fixed to At its lower end lever 855 carries a roller the anvil. lfhen as the A180 fixed t0 shaft 833 is a.

cam shaft 838 (Figs. 5 and 7). The shape of the race isshown in dotted lines in Fig. 11.

A plug insert slide B59 is slidably mounted for horizontal movement in frame '32! with its axis in the horizontal plane of the shaft 856 and the vertical place of hammer 825. A link 81! connects slide 869 to the upper end of a bell crank lever 87h) which is pivoted to frame 82! by a pin 812. The arm B113 ofbell crank 316 extends more or less horizontally somewhat beyond the vertical plane of longitudinal c'am shaft 842 at which point a roller 8.1 is pivoted to it. Roller "874 rides in the ra'ce of a earn 815 on camshaft "832. The shape of the race is shown in dotted lines Fig. 10.

lexially aligned with slide 8169 is a funnel guide ill-6. The passage in this guide is flared outwardly slightly on the conveyor side, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 6, so that the end of a wrapped fusee having the pocket for receiving the plug can be guided into the passage in which it snugly fits. The guide 876 may be of fixed bore but preferably it is split on a vertical plane and the two halves are mounted for slight horizontal movement against the force of springs tending to hold them together in a manner similar to guide 829. The transfer slide 8 33 deposits the plugs from the turret '848 in axial alignment with slide see and funnel guide etc so that movement of e which is drilled to receive the spike, pushes the plug through guide 816.

Also axially aligned with slide 869 and fun- 'nel guide etc on the other side of conveyor 81-2 is a f-usee locater slide 371 mounted for-horizontal reciprocation in a guide 878 on supporting guide Bi l (Fig. 7). Guide 3'53 is open along one side to permit passage of a pin 82 9 which is fixed to the slide 8?? intermediate its ends. At the end remote from the conveyor, slide 18 i! carries a pint-85 to which a spring 88! isattached at one end. Its other end is attached to a pin 882 on the guide 8T8 so that slide 87? is spring biased toward the conveyor. A rock lever 8'63 is pivoted intermediate ends by pin 33s to a frame piece on frame 82! with its upper end adjacent to the open side of guide 8-173 and in the path of'pin 8?9 (Fig. 6). The lower end of rock lever 383 is pivoted to a connecting rod 863 which has a fork '88; at its other end mounted on cam shaft 852 (Fig. 5). Fork til? has a roller 888 pivoted to it which runs in a race in cam use fixed to shaft 342. The shape of the race is shown in dotted lines in Fig. '7.

The plug inserting mechanism 8 operates as follows: A plug P is fed down chute 823 and comes to rest on until 825. with the axial spike hole therein aligned with the first spike S in chute B22. Rotation of cam shaft 84? rotates the eccentric 3&3 thereby bringing hammer 825 down upon the head of spike S and removing it from chute 822. Continued movement of ham- 'mer S25 forces the spike through guide '829 moved to the right by cam 862 and this motion is transmitted by fork 350, connecting rod 859,

roclr lever 13% and link 85% to slide 855 which moves to the left and transfers the plug and. sp ke on anvil 824 into a pocket 349 in turret 848 which has been indexed to receive it. Continued rotation of cam 862 causes slide 855 'to return to the position shown in Fig. 5. The

i3 foregoing operations are performed each time cam shafts 838 and 852 make a complete revolution. Wheel 868 has been illustrated with 8 pockets, but it will be understood that any desired number can be used in the manner described by properly coordinating the angle of rotation of the wheel with the movement of the other parts. In any case a pocket is filled each time it dwells at the top position and at a later dwell it is aligned with slide ttt which moves simultaneously with slide 855 to transfer the plug and spike from the pocket 8&9 to the frame piece upon which funnel guide 3'55 is mounted and in alignment with said guide with the spike pointed toward slide 869. At the same time cam 589 shifts connecting rod 886 to the left seen in Fig. 7 to move lever 883 toward the conveyor and perm t spring 58! to pull slide 37'? in the same direction. As this motion takes place the conveyor chain 852 is stationary with a fusee in one of the holders s l 3 indexed in alignment with slides and 87?. Slide ll? pushes the fusee along the holder 313 until the end is snugly held in guide tit whereupon 875 rotates bell crank tie to force slide see toward the fusee. The end of slide which contacts the plug is recessed to receive the spike so that the slide engages the plug and drives it into the pocket or recess in the end of the fusee formed by the extension of the wrapper sheet. Since the sheet was glued prior to being wrapped about the fusee, the plug will be adhesively held to the wrapped fusee. If desired, additional adhesive may be sprayed into the recess by mounting an ordinary spray gun on the frame adjacent to the conveyor and causing it to operate each time the conveyor dwells by any automatic device, e. g., a trigger on the gun in the path of the holders 8! 3 to operate an air valve in the air line to the gun. It will be observed that the fusee is not positively compressed between slides see and Si? since 877 is only spring biased toward 359. This provides automatic adjustment for fusees of different lengths. The force of the spring 83! is sufficient to assure proper positioning of the plug in the recess of the wrapped fusee. As soon as the plug is forced completely into the recess, as shown in Fig. it, slide 889 pushes the assembled fusee and plug, together with the slide 81?, against the force of the spring 88! until the fusee occupies its original position in the holder iii 3. Then cams 875 and 8% return the slides 8&9 and 817 to their position shown in Figs. 6 and '7. As soon as the slides are clear of the fusee, the chain 812 moves one step to index the next fusee to receive its plug, and it is this motion which causes turret 8 58 to move one step also through the interposition of sprocket 854, shaft 853, spiral gears 852 and 855, and shaft sec.

Disc applicator operative position adjacent to the pusher. A glue applicator roll 953i is rotatably mounted in frame 998 so as to be adjacent to the bottom step of pusher 462 somewhat in advance of the 14 rearmost position of the front of the next step, which is the position the pusher occupies in Figs. 1, 12 and 13. This permits a fusee to drop from the next higher step without interference. At the other side of pusher 32, a guide 9E2 is affixed to frame I against which guide the ends of the fusees remote from the glue applicator roll bear as they pass the gluing point.

Roll Qfii is mounted on the end of a vertical shaft 33 suitably journaled in frame 939. Above the journal box a collar SM is fixed to shaft Q03 and forms a thrust bearing to keep the shaft in proper position. At the lower end of shaft 9513 is fixed a gear 9%.

Adjacent to roll dill is a glue transfer roll 996 on a vertical shaft E337 which also carries a pinion 838 in mesh with gear 985 and a bevel gear 909 in mesh with a bevel gear 9H on shaft 74 i. Shaft M4 is driven by chain 535 and sprocket M3 as already set forth.

Adjacent to roll tilt is a glue feed roll 9 on a vertical shaft tlii on which is fixed a collar above the journal box and a gear cm below it which meshes with pinion 9%.

Above rolls and 9 a glue funnel M5 is secured to frame i which is adapted to feed a stream of glue into the bight formed by these two rolls and thereby form a film of glue on the transfer roll the which is then transferred to roll Below the bight of rolls 9% and 9 a glue tube 92% is secured to the journal box which leads excess glue to a glue channel 917 which is provided with a down spout 918.

provided to catch it and the operator may return it to the supply by hand.

A disc magazine in the form of a semicircular channel is mounted on frame sec to the right of the glue applicator as seen in Figs. 1 and 13. It preferably includes a horizontal portion adjacent to the pusher 4G2 and an upwardly sloping portion throughout the. greater portion of its length as seen in Fig. 14. A follower t2i is provided on channel 928 which comprises rollers :322 and a follower plate 92% mounted between side walls. A cord 92% is fastened at one end to follower 92% and it runs around pulley .25 which is mounted on frame etc and pulley see which is mounted at the top end of a Weight tube 92? in which a Weight 523 slides, the other end of cord $24 being fastened thereto. This provides the necessary force on follower plate are to assure feed of the discs down the magazine channel eze so that the lowermost disc in the magazine always rests against stops 93 3 at the lower end thereof.

Above the lower end of the magazine is a lever t ti which is pivot-ally mounted at its upper end to the magazine 82% by a pin 5'32 and its lower end lies under a bar which limits its upward movement. Lever 935 rests upon the upper edges of discs in the magazine and assists in feeding them upright against thin stop plates set which are secured to the end of the magazine. These plates we have somewhat arcuately shaped opposed edges 13) which are spaced far enough apart to permit an ejector 935 to pass between them and push the lowermost disc out of the magazine. The ejector Q35 is a small plate secured to the side of pusher sea at the end of the lowermost step 433. As the pusher moves to the right, as viewed in Figs. 1 and 13, with a fusee resting on platform 489 after the application of glue to the end thereof adjacent to magazine The: glue from the down spout may be returned by a pump to the supply, or a container may be;

926, the end just clears the stop plates 934 and when it is aligned with the lowermost disc therein ejector see engages and moves it synchroncusly with the fusee. A roller 535 engages the disc as it emerges from the stop plates and presses it against the glued end of the fuses where it is adhesively held while the fusee moves into the wrapping device.

If the fusees are to be finished with spiked plugs, it is only necessary to omit filling the disc magazine and shut ed the glue to funnel i315. Since fusees of different lengths, e. g., both 5 and minute fusees, are finished with discs, the disc applicator 5 is slidably mounted on frame 1 for movement to the right and left as viewed in Fig. 12 1.3 that it can be properly adjusted and locked in place to cooperate with the particular fusee length being finished. For longer fusees the extending end must be supported on the pusher. Ihis may be easily accomplished by securing a removable stepped bar to the right side of pusher .32, as viewed in Fig. 1. While any suitable S'Dii. "ire of pusher 552 may be used, that shown in the drawings is simple and satisfactory. As seen Fig. 12, the stepped portion comprises a plurality of strips running longitudinally of the machine which are secured to cross pieces 96:! adjacent to the forward end and the rear end, respectively. These cross pieces are supported by brackets 952 which are mounted on a table 943. Secured to the corners of table 9 33 on the underside thereof are guides 964 which are slidab-ly mounted on bars iel, as already described. Each strip 8% may be made by securing shorter pieces together in overlapping relation (Fig. 13 to constitute the steps of the pusher. An extra strip of similar construction is readily secured by brackets or the like to the cross pieces 64! and brackets 942 when long fusees are being finished and by making it like the one closest to the disc applicator, the latter can be made to function for either long or short fusees, as desired.

Operation For finishing fusees of the type illustrated in Fig. 16, the disc applicator is adjusted to the proper position, such as shown in Fig. 1 2, and the magazine 92B is loaded with discs standing on edge with the follower 92! urging them downwardly. Glue is supplied to trough 598 and to funnel 815. The hopper H3 is charged with a plurality of the fuses rods and the magazine 5M with a stack of corresponding wrapper sheets. Spinning head Mia and associated parts are adjusted to proper active position. Motor 12s is then started to drive all the moving parts in the manner already described.

A fusee will then be finished as follows: Con veyor 21 2 transports the fusee rod to chute 216 which guides it to a pocket 303 in the turret 362 of the driliing mechanism 3. While held therein by bell crank 304, the hole in the far end of the fuses is drilled during clockwise rotation of the turret, as viewed in Fig. 1. When the fusee reaches the guide 08 it is released and dropped onto the pusher 402 In passing down the stepped pusher to the platform M9 the near end of the fuses is coated with glue and a disc is applied thereto by mechanism 3 in the manner described. Platform 409 and pusher 462 then travel simultaneously to the right into the lower end of the adhesive coated side of a wrapper sheet which has been withdrawn from the magazine 501, coated with glue and fed in timed relation between guides H3 and 514 into the path of the fusee on the platform. Continued movement of the platform and pusher carries the fusee and wrapper adjacent to the wrapping unit at the loading station when the leading edge of platform 399 reaches the limit of its travel close to projection 604a at which time pusher 40} transfers the fusee and wrapper into the unit between projections 506a which temporarily hold them as the pusher and platform Withdraw and the holding rollers close. The turret 6112 then makes a counterclockwise revolution, bringing the unit and fusee to the spinning station during which the driven rollers 607 rotate the f-usee and wrap the cover around it. .At the moment of dwell of the turret 682, heads NH and 'H'Ha move inwardly folding the extending ends of the wrapper over the drilled end and disc respectively, as shown in Fig. 16, whereupon they both withdraw. ihe next 90 revolution of turret i502 brings the finished fusee to the discharge station where lever 6'3 transfers it to the chain conveyor 3l2 or, if desired, directly into a packing case by removing the supporting bar B which normally supports a fusee during transfer from the turret 602 to the chain 8 l2.

For finishing fusees of the type shown in Fig. 17., the disc applicator is inactivated, either as described above or by moving it out of the way, wrappers of proper size are placed in magazine 5%, spinner 19 la is inactivated and moved out of the way, the plug applicator 8 is connected for operation and the nail and plug magazines thereof are loaded. The various parts operate as described for the other type of fusees except that the near end is not coated with glue, no disc is applied and the extension of the wrapper at this end is not spun during the dwell at the spinning station. The fusee arrives, therefore, in a holder 813 with the recess or pocket in the near end open to receive a plug and nail in the manner described during the dwell of the chain M2 at the plug inserting station.

Although the invention has been described and. illustrated in conjunction with the best known embodiment of the principles of the invention, many changes in details of construction and arrangement of parts or elements of the combination may be made without departing from the spirit of the invention or the scope thereof as defined in the-appended claims.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is:

l. A wrapping device for cylindrical objects comprising a turret; a plurality of rolling devices mounted on said turret, each rolling device comprising a driven roller and a-plurality of holding rollers, said holding rollers being mounted for relative movement .to open and closed positions; means for imparting intermittent rotary motion to said turret to index each rolling device for a dwell successively at a loading station and a discharge station; means for moving said holding rollers of each rolling device to open position to receive a cylindrical object and wrapper at the loading station; means for depositing a cylindrical object and an end of a wrapper in each rolling device during a dwell at the loading station; means for moving said holding rollers of each rolling device during the dwell at the loading station to closed position; means to drive saiddriven roller and thereby wind said wrapper aroundsaid cylindrical object as the turret moves from the loading station toward said discharge station;

and means for moving said holding rollers to open position at said discharge station.

, 2. A wrapping device as set forth in claim 1 in which said turret has a spinning station between said loading and discharge stations, the rolling of said wrapper being completed by the time the object reaches the spinning station, and means for spinning an end of said wrapper over the edge of an end of said object at the spinning station.

3. A wrapping device for cylindrical objects comprising a frame, a shaft journaled in said frame, a turret secured to said shaft for rotation therewith, means for intermittently rotating said shaft a partial revolution, a driven roller journaled to said turret and having a gear, a pinion loosely mounted on said shaft, said pinion meshing with said gear, and means for driving said pinion independently of the rotation of said shaft;

i. A device as set forth in claim 3 which comprises a pair of holding rollers journaled in links pivoted to said turret, resilient means biasing said holding rollers to closed position, a cam loosely mounted on said shaft, an arm on one of said links engaging said cam, and means for moving said'cam independently of the rotation of said shaft for opening said holding rollers against the force of said resilient means.

5. A device for wrapping cylinders comprising a torrent, a plurality of wrapper rolling devices mounted on said turret, means for intermittently rotating said turret to index each of said wrapper roiling devices for a dwell successively at a loading station and a discharge station, each wrapper rolling device comprising a driven roller adapted to rotate a cylinder and wind a wrapper around it and a plurality of holding rollers movable to open position to receive a cylinder and an end of a wrapper and to wrapping position to hold the cylinder and wrapper against said driven roller during ie winding of the wrapper around the cylinder, cam means for moving said holding rollers of each rolling device to open position during a dwell for discharge and loading at said stations, and means for moving said holding rollers of each rolling device to wrapping position during a dwell at said loading station.

6. A device for wrapping a sheet of paper around successive cylinders comprising a wrapper rolling devic comprising two driven rollers and two movable holding rollers, means for moving said holding rollers to open position to receive a cylinder and sheet of paper and then to closed position, means for driving said driven rollers when said holding rollers are in closed position to wrap said sheet of paper around the cylinder, means for feeding successive sheets of paper downwardly with the lower end adjacent to said wrapper rolling device, a guide for said sheets comprising narrow means for engaging the side of the sheet away from said wrapper rolling device, means for applying adhesive to said side of the sheet except in bands engaged by said narrow means, and mechanism for feeding successive cylinders horizontally into the lower end of the adhesive coated sheet and then into said wrapper rolling device.

7. A device for wrapping cylinders comprising a plurality of rotatable parallel rollers journaled in bearings which are relatively movable whereby said rollers are adapted in wrapping position to engage and rotate a cylinder and in open position to receive and discharge cylinders, means for moving said rollers to open and to wrapping posi- 18 tion, means for introducing a cylinder and wrapper into said rollers when in open position with the wrapper extending beyond the end of the cylinder, means to rotate at least one of said rollers in wrapping posiiton to wrap the wrapper about said cylinder, a shaft mounted for axial and rotative movement in axial alignment with a wrapped cylinder in said rollers, a spinning head mounted on the end of said shaft adjacent to said cylinder, means for rotating said shaft and spinning head, means for moving said spinning head into contact with the extended portion of said wrapper for folding the same over and against the end of said cylinder.

8. A machine ior wrapping fusee rods having a hole in one end which comprises a wrapper rolling device, means for feeding a succession of adhesive coated wrappers adjacent to said Wrapper rolling device with the coated side away therefrom, said wrappers being of sufficient length to extend beyond both ends of a rod, means for feeding a rod into the adhesive coated side of said wrapper adjacent to one end thereof and on into said wrapper rolling device, the end of said rod having the hole being spaced from an edge of said wrapper a distance approximately equal to the radial distance from the edge of the hole to the periphery of the rod, means for driving th wrapper rolling device to wind the wrapper around the rod, and means for spinning the end of the wrapper extending beyond the end of the rod having the hole over and against the said end whereby the end is covered but the hole is left open.

9. A machine for wrapping cylindrical objects comprising means for applying adhesive over substantially all of one side of a succession of wrappers, means for feeding said coated wrappers downwardly with the lower end free, a wrapper rolling device adjacent to said free lower end on the uncoated side of said wrapper, a horizontally reciprocating platform adjacent to said free lower end on the coated side of said wrapper, means for feeding a succession of said cylindrical objects one at a time onto said platform and from said platform into the wrapper and into the rolling device as the platform moves in that direction, and means for driving said rolling device to wind the wrapper around the object.

10. A machine for wrapping cylinders comprising a turret, means for rotating the turret intermittently to index wrapper rolling devices thereon successively at loading, spinning and discharging stations, each wrapper rolling device comprising a plurality of rollers, one or said rollers being bodily movable away from the others to open position to receive and discharge cylinders and toward the others to wrapping position, a cam mounted adjacent to said turret for controlling the opening and closing movements of said bodily movable roller, means for moving said cam independently of said turret, one of said rollers having a gear connected thereto, a pinion gear mounted adjacent to said turret meshing with said roller gear, and means for rotating said pinion gear independently of said turret.

11. A machine as set forth in claim 10 having means for feeding a cylinder horizontally into a wrapper rolling device at the loading station, means for removing the cylinder horizontally from the wrapper rolling device at the discharge station, and means aligned with the cylinder at the spinning station for spinning an extended end of the wrapper over and against the end of the cylinder.

12. A machine as set forth in claim 10 including means for feeding an adhesive coated wrapping sheet downwardly adjacent to said loading station with a free lower end adapted to be carried into the Wrapping device by the cylinder.

13. A machine for preparing fusees comprising a. framework; a turret mounted for rotation in said framework; a plurality of wrapper rolling devices mounted on said turret; means for rotating said turret intermittently to locate each wrapper rolling device successively at a. loading station, a spinning station and, a discharge station; a magazine mounted on said framework adapted to hold a supply of wrappers somewhat longer than the fusee cylinders to be wrapped and wide enough to. go around it a plurality of times; means, mounted on said framework for removing successive wrappers from. said maga zine. and feeding them to a. position adjacent to said, loading station; means. for applying adhesive, to the surface of wrappers remote from said; turret; means mounted on said; framework for feeding a, fusee cylinder into the adhesive coated side of a wrapper in said position adjacent to. one edge. and between th ends. of the wrapper and on into, a wrapper rollingdevice positioned at said. loading station; means for driving said wrapper rolling device to wrap said wrapper around said fusee cylinder a plurality of times asit moves from the loading to the spinning sta- 20 tion; and means mounted on said framework at said spinning stationior spinning an end of said wrapper over the edge of an end of said fusee cylinder at said spinning station,

FRANCIS R. CLARK. CARL J. WEST, JR.

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